SC’s First Astronaut Charles Duke

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South Carolina’s First Astronaut Charles Duke and the Apollo Missions

This exhibit closed Feb. 18, 2018

This new exhibition at the South Carolina State Museum explores South Carolina’s First Astronaut Charles Duke and the Apollo Missions. A native of Lancaster, South Carolina NASA selected Duke to join the Apollo Space Program in 1966. He served as part of the Apollo 10, 11, 13, 16, and 17 missions. In 1972, as lunar module pilot on the Apollo 16 mission, Duke became the tenth man to walk on the Moon.

Exhibit guests can trace Duke’s time at NASA during the Apollo missions through a wide range of objects on display, many of which were donated to the State Museum by Duke himself. Objects include: